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melloclelloon Sprout

I loved the bit where the sandwich gets digitized

melloclelloon Bill Joy: Why the future doesn't need us (2000)

^^^ Heck yeah this guy

melloclelloon “Startup Names” by Paul Graham (2006)

I looked up YouOS, what a blast from an (idealistic) past:

http://www.youos.com/html/static/manifesto.html

melloclelloon The Importance of Manually Breaking Lines of Text

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans

melloclelloon Show HN: Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door

I always thought the delivery pizza business was set to be revolutionised by legal marijuana.

Friday special, two large pizzas and a dime bag...

melloclelloon Humans are not constraint solvers

If somebody writes an incomprehensible sentence it's not his language's fault for him doing so - and the solution is not to simplify English.

melloclelloon The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada

It's worth mentioning that now that National have won the election in New Zealand, it's likely they'll sign onto the TPPA which will effectively ban parallel importing.

melloclelloon I built a custom keyboard for iOS 8

Thanks! Just doing this...

melloclelloon I built a custom keyboard for iOS 8

Gah, this thing again. I've noticed that happening on a couple of the other custom keyboards, as well - I suspect it may be an actual bug in iOS 8. I was hoping it would be fixed when the GM came out but no dice...

PS thanks for not giving me a one-star review :o)

melloclelloon I built a custom keyboard for iOS 8

Thanks! I get a kick out of exploring all the stuff in Unicode too.

melloclelloon I built a custom keyboard for iOS 8

Not a bad idea, I could redesign how the listing mode works so there's a checkbox next to each group name. There's whole swathes of blocks for which there is no font support anyway, I wouldn't mind being able to disable those by default.

melloclelloon I built a custom keyboard for iOS 8

I can't speak for anybody else's apps, iOS or Android, but Glyf sure doesn't have a keylogger included, at the very least...

melloclelloon Peter Thiel Says Computers Haven’t Made Our Lives Significantly Better

Peter Thiel invested in Urbit, it is important to note.

http://urbit.org

https://github.com/urbit

melloclelloon Typographic Programming Language

I remember watching your video dude, I like your work

melloclelloon Typographic Programming Language

Imagine... A tree editor that could edit itself...

http://i.imgur.com/j74SykU.gif

melloclelloon Typographic Programming Language

What we need is a generic tree editor for directly editing your code's parse tree.

melloclelloon Show HN: A drop-in iOS keyboard button that mimics the native keyboard buttons

What happens when it's part of a keyboard extension? afaik no part of your extension's view may pass in front of your app's view

melloclelloon Ethereum Genesis Sale

Those videos sound interesting, link?

melloclelloon Show HN: GameDevs.com, a social news site for game developers

Is that a jQuery modal in TYOOL 2014?

melloclelloon Too Much Power For One Man

The commenter is arguing the opposite - without concentration of power, you get chaos, which is a bad thing

melloclelloon What I mean when I say "I think VR is bad news"

regarding taking them off being an issue, I would presume eventually we'll have headsets you can flip up, like those flip up sunglasses people sometimes have.

melloclelloon IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

Archived SomethingAwful thread from 9/11/2001:

http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/

http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/wtc01.html

> WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR

melloclelloon No leap second will be added tonight

It's a cool story. How did you manage to read it and come out jaded?

melloclelloon The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic

I would say that's in order to contrast with the typical HP bar, which goes from green to red as you lose health.

melloclelloon Share: The Icon No One Agrees On

Heck yeah, good call

melloclelloon With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

> Fink has assigned one team to develop the open-source Machine OS, which will assume the availability of a high-speed, constant memory store. Another team is working on a stripped-down version of Linux with similar aims; another team is working on an Android version, looking to a point at which the technology could trickle down to PCs and smartphones.

I was hoping for a second there that somebody at HP had read about Loper OS and Stanislav Datsovskiy's ideas[1], or even about Symbolics LISP machines (great article on the frontpage today[2]), but nope, looks like they are just gonna repeat the same insanity of the past fifty years instead of actually doing something that will progress the field of computing.

[1] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7878679

melloclelloon Share: The Icon No One Agrees On

I feel like if somebody did what Apple did for the cloud icon (i.e., came up with a canonical geometric representation[1]) to the 'Graph Diagram'[2] mentioned in the article, then you'd find that everyone would just wind up using that.

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThereIsOnlyOneCloudIconInTheEn...

[2] https://bold.pixelapse.com/minming/share-the-icon-no-one-agr...

melloclelloon With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

Continuing to use the file-system metaphor (Instead of, I don't know, anything else, perhaps some kind of global namespace with built-in versioning like Urbit's) seems like lobotomising this incredible new paradigm before it is even born.

melloclelloon The Red Hourglass: Self-Experimentation with Black Widow Bites

There's a paper on latrotoxins available, "Molecular Evolution of α-Latrotoxin, the Exceptionally Potent Vertebrate Neurotoxin in Black Widow Spider Venom":

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/5/999.full

It's way over my head though and I actually have no idea if it's backing up or refuting your claim.

melloclelloon Life360 CEO calls patent troll "Piece of Shit"

Man, I gotta say I thought that that bit about karma was pretty calm and collected - if it was me I don't think I would have been able to resist using far stronger language